Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
QUENTIN CRISPPeople say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Vice is its own reward.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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